How DOES THIS strike a note with you??? Please share!!!

This is exactly what they are planning for and what they wanted.

Husband: Why are you inviting so many men from outside into our house?

Wife: I need them to pump labor into me and give me money.

Husband: But I work hard to do that too.

Wife: That is no good. We need better seeds from more talented people outside. Yours is not good enough. These outside men are smart graduates, strong construction workers, handsome road sweepers, young and vibrant students. They are better than you.

Husband: I am your faithful husband. I love you, lived with you, protect you, stay with you in times of trouble. Doesn’t that count for something? Those men will come and go. Once they see someone better, they will leave you.

Wife: Since some of them will leave eventually, I must invite even more men to our house. I need them. If more men come, maybe, just maybe, if I am lucky, some will stay

Husband: I can fill our house will happy little ones too. Give me a chance.

Wife: You? That will take too long. Even if we have kids, when can they work to give me money. The men from outside are different, they can work and pay me lots and lots of money immediately. When they grow old, they will leave our house and we don’t need to even support them. On the other hand, we need to support our little ones when they age and are too old to be productive.

Husband: Trust me. Life will be better. Don’t invite these men over. I will work hard, and we can afford a nice room in our house if we save for 8-10 years.

Wife: It is no use. By the time you save up, the room prices would be much much higher. Only the men from outside can afford to pay for rooms in our house…you cannot.

Husband: Do you still love me?

Wife: Stay on if you want. It is better you leave. Go to another house. I don’t care. I doubt other houses would even want you. There’s the doorbell……HELLO!!! WELCOME !!! PLS COME INSIDE ME!!

Your bitterness is very much understandable. It does not make sense that our tax monies are being used for purposes and foreigners that put ourselves personally in a disadvantageous position.

It’s gone to to the extent that we are seen to be pandering to the foreigners. And to add oil to fire, the foreigners seem to realise this and maintain an attitude as if they are sniggering at us. Or it is just my self-consciousness….

My opinion is that that we still need NS, unfortunately. But to inadvertantly make those having to serve NS lose out some significantly is wrong. The token recognition in the form of tax relief and rebates that NSmen get is laughable and hardly compensate for the losses.

Yes, I agree with your last sentence. While the SAF is may be useful as a deterrence against some specific threats, the Singaporeans are already threatened on the home soil. The battle is being lost within the hearts of the people. More loyalty will be lost and more will decide to ship out.

They cannot take public money and dump this country to the dogs!! It is just not right. STAND UP FOR SINGAPORE NEEDS TO HAVE SUBSTANCE OF TRUTH IN THOSE 4 WORDS, do anyone disagree??

If migration rules here make this a honey pot for temporary “foreign talent” to exploit local vulnerabilities, it will be glad exploited by foreigners. It is natural in a borderless world now.

Australia also has migration policy but if foreigners are not committed to Australia, there Permanent Residency status gets revoked as reported for one Singapore dental couple. Those who are Australian PRs must spend at least 2 years living in the last 5 years before the permanent residency status is renewed. That is fair to Australians – they don’t want “passengers” of convenience on the transport to better welfare care and access of public facilities like medical, education, better living environment for those without PERSONAL COMMITMENT to share and contribute directly to their society.

Why can’t we be the same? Why MUST SINGAPORE BE FOR FOREIGNERS FIRST and those native-born disadvantaged, used and caste aside as though it is past use-bye date except in national emergency of war needing blood on the battlefield to protect its sovereignty? It is COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS.

Singapore should have new IMMIGRATION LAW that require those who have access to public funding support like education etc must elect (from the date of receipt of some public benefits) to take up citizenship or have their PR status revoked back to temporary residence. PRs have rights to buy into HDB without any commitment to this country of sharing and contribution – IT IS ABSURB AND MAKES A MOCKERY OF LOYALTY TO NATION AND FLAG. Of course we cannot forced foreign nationals to be conscripted for national service BUT WE CAN GET AROUND THIS BY FORCING AT LEAST THOSE WHO RECEIVED PUBLIC-FUNDED BENEFITS to become citizens and upon that, they must commit within 5 years elect any 2 years to perform national services like us.

EQUAL LOAD OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR EQUAL RECEIPT OF NATIONALLY DISTRIBUTED BENEFITS. PR has also subsidized medical benefits and if they lose their PR status, they have to sell their HDB if they lose their residency rights to remain in Singapore, lost their medical subsidy as well.

That way, we can get a level playing field. IT CANNOT BE SINGAPOREANS MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS, MAKING ALL THE SACRIFICE FOR THE COMFORT AND FORTUNE OF FOREIGN PRs only – a one way sacrifice and disadvantage. It makes PR status become the obscenity of what one blogger called ‘PREVILEGED RESIDENCE”

But is this going to change anytime soon? IT IS PROBABLY EASIER FOR ME TO GET ELECTED TO THE NEXT POPE IN THE CATHOLIC WORLD THAN THIS TO HAPPEN…. MY RELIGIION HAPPENS TO BE $$$$ AND CENTS.

Why is this pessimism?? Look at the 9 recently selected MPs, how many ( if any) are from strong legal background who can debate the law robustly and introduce a private members bills for consideration?? I am really so disapointed that opening the door wider is NOT OPENING THE DOOR for SERIOUS CHANGE for the good of my country men.

This is very very wrong!! Singapore and Singaporeans must come first.

I am an engineer. Over the past year, I have been squeezed out of my job by cheaper Chinese, Malaysian and Indian engineers. To them, $2000 is much when they remit back home. To me, I can’t even afford a HDB, as frugal as I try to be, because the foreigners keeps driving home prices up on a daily basis. To add insult to injury, more of the foreign graduates replacing me had their university fees paid by our very own Ministry of Education. These graduates were not only given free college education, they were even given a month allowance of few hundred dollars each. While I had to work part time to support my education in NUS, and I still remain in debt to my student loan. (BITTER LAUGH!!!!).

I spent 2.5 years of my precious youth serving the SAF, during which I lost my first girlfriend during training. These foreigners were given PRs and citizenship in less than 2.5 years and they don’t even need to serve. If war breaks out, I have to protect 1/3 of the population fuilled with these people?? (Assuming they dun run away at the 1st sign of trouble??!!) SAF even sent me a letter threatening to fine me for going overseas without telling them…to attend a funeral of my uncle…(BITTER LAUGH!!!!). Hey, here’s an idea, why don’t I migrate to another country before migrating back. That will save me more time!

I am working in odds jobs now 7 days a week. I am now almost 30 already. Inflation exceed my savings rate, and I find a home, marriage, kids and happy future beyond me. A simple illness or a year of unemployment could wipe me out. Yet the government is wondering why there are less marriages and births….(BITTER LAUGH!!!!)

I bear no love to my country now. My country does not need to be attacked, it has already be invaded and taken over. Thanks PAP!

You got a degree and some work experience -these are NOT lost. Any experience you get, you could find them in later life SURPRISINGLY useful. If you takes time = learning experience, someday in your later life you will recall this post and this conversation in this blog and celebrate in your life memory of experiences.

Life is frequently filled with challenges and, I believe, often driven by circumstances. Leave the past behind and move on. Feeling down and worry is like seating on a rocking chair – rolls backward and forward and achieving nothing. If you can be mobile, and a little adventurous, how about getting out leaving this little red dot for a while and find some fresh (even polluted) air outside to discover new perspective and opportunity. Have you thought of going into teaching maybe English or other technical subject relevant to your fields of career and work experience in PRC. The distraction, if I may call it, may open up new horizon. It pays peanuts but you gain skills which may allow you to go into corporate training and that itself could give you new contacts and opportunities – transnational. At the same time, living abroad give you new experiences which future employers here might take to a liking.

I chanced upon meeting a Singaporean who declined a teaching job in Shanghai with a Singapore-based educational group for nearly S$4.5K only because he felt the teaching hours were too long, leaving him too little time on his own to pursue his other career/business interests. I am sure teaching for him was a little “pastime” of no real career significance and intention. Being in China is the real thing for him – just buying time waiting to stumble on something good as he is bilingual. By moving out of Singapore, you expands your opportunity space substantially.I thought he was a tourist when we chat along Nanjing Lu in Shanghai but he was on a “touristic” career working legally in China.

It is only a suggestion to you. Hope something will work out for you soon.

Cheers

But I am still very puzzled, why a Singaporean like me still am unemployed and all if not most of my foreign classmates already found jobs? Am I being choosy, how can one be choosy when there isn’t any offer at all?

I then found out that some of these foreign students found work based on connections, they got to know their professors who is also a foreigner from the same country or same race. Then these professors have connections, friends or ex-students who are working in the GLC firm or some public organisation and they give them recommendations. I was thinking of doing that but I am of different race or nationality from these professors. There was one who did helped but I don’t think he is sincere, anyway, I when along with his recommendation but there is no reply.

Why! I need to work and support my parents, can’t my country give me that little dignity to fulfil my filial piety to my parents and family, instead of having them worrying for me even after my NS and graduation from the university. I am very depressed and deeply sadden from my situation. I was once so naive and believed that the pap government is doing their best and good for this country, now I am so unsure of their course for Singapore.

the catch here is you must be pretty well off.

Many malaysia PR work in singapore AS they have to leave the comfort house to find a jobs here. because no jobs is avalaible there.

if you are young, venture outside of singapore,

if you can make it, return or stay at your host country depend on you.